Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-16
MINI ESoTA.

"A $500 blaze occurred at Austin the
| other night.
The Uniyersalist State convention was
held at Anoka recently.
e. E. Bird, of Elgin, has received q
patent for four-horse evener.
"A Rochester calf died of hydropho-
bia, having been bitten by dog.
Three hundred men in Saltwater ap-
piled for positions Us letter carriers.
There is less activity in the AIankalo
stone quarries this spring than formerly.
The German Evangelists held theil
annual camp meeting near Waseca Lately.
The ladies of the Womans Exchange
have opened their new rooms at Lake CITY.
"A new theater is building at Duluth
which is to cost $25,OOO and seat 1900
people.
"A woman named Clementson was
gored to death by bull near Sherbur,
lately.
s-The milk from about one hundred
COWS is daily sent from West Concord to
st. Paul.
pay out $4,000 as bounties for gophers
this year.
Mendoza is again trying to in.
corporate and q special election will be
held July S.
The st. Paul Company D won second
honors at the national competitive drill in
Washington.
Rev. Ambrose Murphy has returned to
Chippewa Falls, from IN absence of seven
years in Europe.
MIR. and Mrs. w. H. Porter, of Eau
Claire, have gone to Denver, COL, where
they will make their home in future.
An attempt was made to rob bank al
Rush City but was unsuccessful. -Four
tramps were arrested on suspicion.
The bank of Waterville was broken
into by burglars, who were unable, how
ever, to successfully crack the safe.
Shippers of stock in Brown county
complain of being swindled by the monop-
oily which controls the transfer at St,
Paul.
The continued dry weather has had
the effect of injuring the prospects for
small fruits in a great portion of the
State.
Miss Isabel Watson, who recently re-.
turned TO Norhfeld from Paris, will have
charge of the French classes at Carleton
next year.
Storms on Lake Pepin have washed
up many pieces of antique pottery cu
the beach of Bay City, probably made by
the mound builders.
The ST. Cloud city council appropriat-
ed $500 for weekly evening concerts bv
the band, and s5,OOOto to put in the new
Fifth avenue culverts.
The old settlers association Of Mime.
sofa held their annual meeting at st. Panl
recently, prominent men being present
from all parts of the State.
Rev. @. E. Wright, of Austin. has
gone east on two months vacation. His
pulpit is being supplied by Henry Plant,
of Minneapolis, and others.
The Winona marshal arrested n Ia.
year-old, who was running away from her
home in Wisconsin, claiming that she was
badly treated by her parents.
III. E. Benner, steward of the Joliet
ILL.,, prison, offers to accept similar posi-
ton at saltwater for S1Oo month. The
inspectors will think about it.
III. N. Davis, though rs year old,
swan ashore from capsized boat with his
wife in his arms at McCarron lake lately.
Mr.. Davis is the father of Senator G, K.
Davis.
"A little child was struck by passing
locomotive at Heron Lake o few DAYS ago
and thrown five feet into the air and off the
track. Strange to say the little fellow was
SO slightly injured that he was able to 20
to the neighbor's to play next day.
w. P. Milliken, of Lake City, is re.
ceiving visit from his brother-in-law.
Hon. D. W. Wood, and nephew, D. w.
Wood, DR., of Lewistown, Pa. The senior
Mr.. Wood is q descendant by only 10 re.
moves, of John Witherspoon, one of the
signers Of the Declaration of Independ.
ence.
The twenty-ninth annual convention
of the Baptist Association of Northern
Minnesota was closed at Red Cloud by
addresses by Boston W. Smith Of Mime.
apolis, and Miss Anna Nelson, missionary
at Salt Lake City. The convention was a
very successful one. Forty-one delegates
were present, and every church bat one re.
ported By delegates OF letter,